Welcome to my words

And a thank you for taking your time to read material from this Site – Updated April 2025

… well, my words together with the words of other poets and the like … poems that for one reason or another have come to my attention. The banner image on this Home Page is sunlight on gum trees against a clear blue Australian sky.

This Site shares some of my poems as well as poetry commentary on poems from other poets. It replaces my ‘Out Of The Blue’ Blogger Site used for the same purpose covering the period from March 2011 to February 2013.

This Site remains active after starting from 5 April 2011. It is an open WordPress Website and I keep it Ad free.

My work is free-to-air but please acknowledge the source in any reference.

Comments can still be sent to – mywordinyourear@gmail.com

I have a self-published E-Book version of my poetry …  ‘My Word in Your Ear’ – Selected Poems 2001 – 2015′ – EBook – My Word in Your Ear

Also, I have an Ebook version of a small book of personal poems which can be referenced from within this Site for anyone interested … the link.

Below is an Index in chronological order containing the links to the Posts on this Site … Richard Scutter (Jan 2023) …

• The End – A. A. Milne
• To the Foot From its Child – Pablo Neruda
• ‘A piece of paper’ – Julia Briggs
• I wanted to be surprised – Jane Hirschfield
• Our Father – and Mother … and Mothers’ Day
• ANZAC Day – a tribute to nurses
• The Donkey – G. K. Chesterton
• Cycling – 20 March 2024 – in memory
• Scrambled Egg – Kate Cameron – Yass Valley Writers
• The Old Stoic – Emily Bronte
• This is a Photograph of Me – Margaret Atwood
• Endimyion – opening lines – analysis
• The Pebble – Zbigniew Herbert – comments
• My Snowman – A Christmas Poem
• ‘Eventually’ – the AI encroachment
• Lost in the Bush – in memory …
• Edgar Allan Poe – Female connectivity
• England in 1819 – Shelley – Comments
• Church Going – Philip Larkin – Analysis
• Made to Measure – Stephen Edgar – Comments
• Spring Hail – Les Murray – analysis
• Victoria Falls – Muriel Spark – comments
• You – a poetic elaboration
• A one-word poem – Boring
• Exposure – Seamus Heaney – Analysis
• The spiritual Struggle of Tennyson
• Tennyson and “The Muses”
• September Day – Sara Teasdale
• Easter Sunday and accomplishment
• The Raincoat – Ada Limón – Analysis
• Song for a Summer’s Day – Sylvia Plath
• In your pink wool knitted dress – Marriage Day Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
• The Ruined Maid – Thomas Hardy – accepting subservience
• The Applicant – Sylvia Plath – On marriage
• Landscape lines – Algernon Charles Swinbourne
• Sonnet 60 – Shakespeare
• I remember one Christmas time …
• Human Life – Matthew Arnold
• The Rainy Day – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Tonight I can write the saddest lines – Pablo Neruda
• The King and I – meeting notable people
• Big Meadow – Kevin Hart
• Pablo Neruda – Love Sonnet XV11
• A Dog Has Died – Pablo Neruda
• Prayer – Carol Ann Duffy
• Love Dogs – Rumi
• The eternal language of words …
• Anointing Ann Anonymous – leaving words
• A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
• Another uncomfortable visit
• Poppies in October – Sylvia Plath and AI
• Postscript – Mother and Jesus on Mother’s Day
• Well, the time has come … the Richard said …
• The Christmas Gift …
• December 23 – Celebration of a birthday
• Along by merry Christmas time – Henry Lawson – Comments
• The Prisoner – Alexander Pushkin
• My Papa’s Waltz – Theodore Roethke – Comments
• In the Park – Gwen Harwood – Analysis
• Nothing Doing – a response to the wanton Ukraine destruction
• Bobowler – Liz Berry – Comments
• Playing with words – A Wislawa Szymborska poem
• The Joy of Writing – Wislawa Szymborska – Analysis
• Epitaph on a Friend – Robert Burns
• ‘Floating’ – Marking the 21st Anniversary – SIEV X Tragedy
• Lana Turner has collapsed – Frank O’Hara
• The Day is Done – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Analysis
• When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d – Walt Whitman
• Machines – Michael Donaghy – Analysis
• I am the great sun – Charles Causley – Analysis
• The Liverpool Poets – Roger McGough – Comeclose and Sleepnow
• The Birds – Philip Hodgins – Comments
• The Eagle – Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Gratitude to Old Teachers – Robert Bly – Comments
• Lost words of Shelley – The Existing State of Things – Politics
• On love and domestic life – Vikram Seth
• Living – Denise Levertov – Analysis
• It happens all the time in heaven – Hafiz – Comments
• The Third Body – Robert Bly – Analysis
• South of My Days – Judith Wright – Analysis
• Ilya Kaminsky – ‘Deaf Republic’ – the Ukraine War
• Some ‘Reunion’ Words
• Election Day in Australia – The Political Environment
• Places of Poetry – A UK Poetry Society Anthology
• The Day Lady Died – Frank O’Hara – Comments
• A Poem from the Iona Community by Peter Millar
• Nevertheless – An Easter Poem
• ‘The word’ Nevertheless – Michael Thwaites
• Separation – Colin Campbell Analysis
• Vitai Lampada – Henry Newbolt – Comments
• Yussouf – James Russell Lowell – Analysis
• Canberra Day: Some Les Murray Words
• Stubbing Wharfe – Ted Hughes – Analysis
• A Message to my Granddaughters
• A Message to my Grandson – Michael Thwaites – Comments
• To Lucasta, Going to the Wars – Richard Lovelace – Comments
• The World Peace Bell – Canberra
• Australia Day – A Personal Poem
• The Hawk in the Rain – Ted Hughes – Analysis
• Requiem – Robert Louis Stevenson